I am on my second day of being a Stay at Home Lady. TRANSLATION: christmas break with the kids. After we all rolled out of bed, we turned on the TV and started watching Temple Grandin.
WOW! That movie directly speaks to autism but to me it also spoke to education.
Temple Grandin said "I am different, not less."
Different is NOT less, but somehow in education we seem to think that changing the traditional norms is less, but is it really?
What makes it okay not to reach all of our students? Isn't that inhumane?
Do we hear their mooing? (This makes a lot more sense if you check out this link) In addition to watching the movie.
I loved watching the passion and persistance that she put into her "squeeze" machine and the redesign of her cattle stockyard receiving gates. She created something and represented something that changed the world.
Aren't all kids capable of this? I look at the interest that my kids had in the story and how it relates to all of us.
Perception.
What do we perceive? Is what we perceive what is real,what is true or is there another way?
This is where the Permission Man comes in. Waiting for someone to tell us there is another way.
But where are our Temple Grandins in education? Who is going to barge in, headstrong and say... Now...this is what I observe and this is what we need to do!
We need to see what children do and design a school for them. Child driven - Shaped by the Teacher!
Where do children like to sit?
How do children work?
What time frames do they need?
Are we assuming that children work best with short isolated projects or perhaps they would blossum with long range projects?
I am intrigued by the ideas of something different....
"Different is not less."
In fact, I think it is a heck of a lot more.
Until Next Time,
Lit Maven Out!
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